Bill Text: HI HB714 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Health Planning and Development Agency

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB714 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB714-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  367

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 714

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 714 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH PLANNING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that planning for health services and facilities in the State adequately addresses existing needs by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the State Health Services and Facilities Plan (Plan); and

 

     (2)  Requiring that adoption of or amendment to the Plan be conducted according to established rulemaking procedures under Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     The Queen's Medical Center and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Health and Kaiser Permanente opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 714, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 714, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair